FASD: Who is at risk?
If a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy, regardless of timing and amount, she is at risk of having a child with a FASD. Alcohol can affect an embryo before a woman knows she is…
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: What is it?
Prenatal alcohol exposure is the single leading preventable cause of neuro-developmental disorders (Zagorski, 2015). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a blanket term for a number of effects that can occur in an individual who was…
Legal implications of nasal fractures
Our medical expert recently got retained in a criminal case where the victim suffered an injury to her nose. She had a reported history of previous nasal trauma but was diagnosed with a nasal fracture…
Nasal Fractures: What does the literature say?
Legal Aspects in Nasal Fractures Rhinology, 1991 ABSTRACT A criminal act is involved in a high percentage of cases of nasal fracture, and exact medical information describing the damages found is mandatory for the criminal…
Does the patient in your case have a nasal fracture?
According to Dr. Greg Gilbert, from Stanford University Medical Center, x-rays of the nose serve no purpose in diagnosing nasal fractures: “A nasal fracture is a clinical diagnosis and not one that should be made…
What is a nasal fracture, really?
Nasal fractures are the most common facial fracture and the third most common fracture of any bone in the body. They most frequently occur as a result of assault or motor vehicle collisions. What we…
MDMA / Molly: Legal Implications
Molly is in the same Schedule I category of illegal drugs as heroin, LSD and marijuana. In 2010 the U.S. government initiated severe fines and lengthy jail time for those discovered manufacturing and/or distributing ecstasy.…
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Dangers of Molly / MDMA
MDMA addiction poses a danger as life threatening symptoms develop including irregular heart rhythms, high blood pressure that can lead to a heart attack or stroke, bleeding in the brain, organ damage and hyperthermia. Hyperthermia…
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4 hours MCLE available for $125! Register now for our Medical Record Review workshop. May 9th Workshop (Orange County, CA) registration will close 4/15 at midnight. September 12th (Sacramento, CA) registration still open. Our intensive workshop on…
MDMA / Molly: Use & Effects
Referred to as ecstasy, the love drug, lover’s speed, X, and Molly (short for molecule), this drug can be used in powder form for snorting or smoking; or most commonly through oral ingestion as a…
MDMA / Molly: Overview
The substance, 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) was first synthesized in Germany in the early 1900s by Merck and Co. At that time there was no defined medical use for the product. Through time studies began to…
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